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General Discussion / Re: LEO mirror
« on: October 13, 2025, 08:49:12 am »
Old timers might remember that we had a couple of file sites, Hobbes and LEO (link everything online). At one point LEO had a hard drive crash and vanished along with all its content, which was mostly OS/2 related. Still find links to it here and there.
Anyways, found a mirror of it, https://ftpmirror.infania.net/sites/ftp.leo.org/ perhaps others should mirror it.

OMG, I almost forgot that one. Back then, sometimes it was even better than Hobbes - after that HD crash, Hobbes became the main reference repository.
It's good to know there's a mirror for it.
Mentore

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Applications / Re: General Software Testing
« on: September 05, 2025, 08:55:44 am »
Thanks for the feedback.

I can not make PageTurner work. I have it on the LIBPATH and
SET GS_LIB=C:\PAGETURN
SET GS_FONTPATH=C:\PSFONTS

But it freeze on the information square screen and brokes the WPS. I will try on a different VM just in case.

Regards

Most probably this is a stupid question, but is it possible that a different Ghostscript installation is needed? ISTR in the past Ghostscript has changed a lot.

Mentore

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Applications / Re: General Software Testing
« on: September 02, 2025, 07:58:02 am »
Hello

I wanted to see how to make this MIDI database to work:
- https://hobbesarchive.com/Home/Download?path=/Hobbes/pub/multimedia/music/midi/collect/mdb_data.zip

It says it works with MIDI DB, and I think it is this one:
- https://hobbesarchive.com/Home/Download?path=/Hobbes/pub/os2/apps/mmedia/sound/players/MIDI_DB_1-3.zip

Sadly I can not make it work. Even that I put PARADISE.SYS it keeps telling me it can not run. "(RC = 3) Can not start MIDI DB."

I don't know if I'm doing it right. Any comments welcome.

Regards

Pretty difficult to diagnose with so little documentation - I'm checking the package, it's from 1997 and there is something about palette managing, which makes me think this is something rather old.
As always, having the source code would be bliss. I don't think the problem is in the drivers, most probably you should check if the database is in the correct format or in the correct path.

Mentore

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Programming / Re: GCC - updates
« on: August 13, 2025, 09:24:15 am »
Only tested to confirm it can build itself.... https://smedley.id.au/tmp/gcc-15.2.0-os2-20250810.zip

Hi Paul, smedley.id.au is not responding right now. Problems?

Mentore

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Applications / Re: Calculator options.
« on: August 13, 2025, 09:23:22 am »
  With the HP15C emulator, you can use the num-pad for entering numbers and operators...
I understand that you need buttons if you have Touchscreen. In this case you input expression using buttons.
But if you don't have touchscreen then you don't need the buttons. you type the expression using keyboard as text string.
I have used PMDCalc Plus Version 0.9.9 over ten years, now Version 1.0.0.RC1.

IIRC I completed some SDL HP48 emulators - these use RPN for working, so maybe they're not for the average user. Can't really remember if I already sent them to Hobbes though - I'm in the final phase of changing from one house to another and it's a NIGHTMARE.
Hope I'll have something new in september (will have to renew my software subscripion).

Mentore

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Programming / Re: Powerbasic for OS/2
« on: August 02, 2025, 12:37:44 pm »
It would be great if yours could get on there though, better provenance.

Now uploaded!
https://archive.org/details/watcom-vx-rexx-standard-2.1

Richard.

GREAT!!!

Mentore

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Article Discussions / Re: Games with older SDL and FSLIB
« on: July 17, 2025, 07:45:14 am »
Here's the game installed to \usr\local. Still not sure how to install it so that it looks relatively for its data.
Edit: Removed zip

This is one of the biggest problems I encountered with installing unix ported programs. Either you install them in /usr/local or /usr/something, or they are configured to install in a modifiable PREFIX, otherwise you are on your own figuring out a way to install it in a generic path.
I seem to remember I found something interesting via the OS/2 toolkit, but can't remember right now - I'm in the middle of an INCREDIBLY TOUGH moving from a house to another, and I can't really describe how hard and taxing this is becoming day after day.
Hope I'll get back on working on ArcaOS translation and software development ASAP.

Mentore

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Applications / Re: General Software Testing
« on: July 03, 2025, 08:01:18 am »
Hello

I found on some old online CD's "Champion for OS/2" which seems to be a Japanese IBM Works/Office alike software.
Seems to belong to IBM, MicroBurst and MetaSoft. Does anybody remembers if this was freeware or commercial?

Regards

Hi Martin, never heard about this software. Which is weird, since I got interested in Japanese years ago and sought for OS/2 based solutions but to no avail.
I would think about it as a commercial software, otherwise there would be some shareware copy on Hobbes or os2site.

Mentore

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Games / Re: Strange but good fork of MAME for OS/2
« on: June 18, 2025, 08:26:06 am »
I tried eCS in past. I remembered that I tried fork of MAME with GUI. Owner of that program dedicated it to his deceased cat, I remembered that detail, and that notice appeared when you open that program or when you click on About button.
Do you know name of that fork, I would like to try it again to play some games.
Regards

Hello,
currently two major flavors of MAME run under ArcaOS - OS/2.
The first is the old MAME 0.37, including a PM GUI - which I find pretty elegant, by the way.
The second is the SDL MAME port from KO Myung-Hun, who is active on this forum. Latest version is on Hobbes Archive:
https://hobbesarchive.com/Home/Download?path=/Hobbes/pub/os2/apps/emulator/SDLMAME_0-170.zip

I can't seem to remember another MAME port, but your hint to a cat makes me think about InfinityCat - an OS/2 port of MUGEN. Since the original site is long gone, the only (?) way to download it is by going to Internet Archive:

https://web.archive.org/web/20111203125610/http://nekomimi.cafe.coocan.jp/dev/InfCat/download/InfCat20070121.zip

Mind you, this port is largely underdeveloped IIRC.

HTH,
Mentore

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Off Topic discussions / Re: This may make you smile
« on: June 04, 2025, 08:20:58 am »
LOL

Mentore

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Off Topic discussions / Re: This may make you smile
« on: June 03, 2025, 08:53:35 am »
Hi All

Had a few days break last week in St. Leonards-On-Sea (town adjoining Hastings - 1066 and all that) where I spent the formative years of my childhood during the early 1960's.

When my wife saw the sign in the attached image - which is in public view on the cliff top warning rail on Hastings West Hill next to the castle - she burst out laughing and said "Now I understand your political views".


;-)

Pete

Well I may agree with that, but... Isn't the sea already polluted enough? ;-) 8-)

Mentore

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Applications / Re: SFTP client
« on: May 23, 2025, 08:50:41 am »
I had a brain fart, it was getpid(). Added the include and it compiled. For modern code, it rejected GCC 9.2.0 as too old, so far only an include needed :)

Great news. ISTR I had worked on botan time ago, but I don't remember if I had success on it. I don't even remember why I tried to port it, but surely it was a part of another package, maybe something QT related...

Mentore

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Applications / Re: SFTP client
« on: May 22, 2025, 09:05:58 am »
IIRC I ported an old version of NcFtp years ago, I don't remember if it was SFTP compliant - most probably not. I may try to search for a more recent version.

Mentore

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Hi Jan-Erik
Would he agree to that someone sign a NDA (Non Disclosure Agreement)
and either let that person remove the code or himself if we'd scramble money to do it?

At a later stage it would be interesting if Gpf Rexx could work with ooRexx 5.x

I think I contacted the author long time ago. If memory serves me correctly, the issue was that the source code of GpfRexx contains the scramble procedure of any work created with that tool. That will mean that you can de-compile any software created GpfRexx if the author releases the source code. I think he does not want to have any kind of problems with that.

Maybe with a NDA, if someone gets the source code, to open source it will be required not to include that scramble procedure and maybe change the software in a way that the scramble code is customized by any software author.

Regards

During our mail exchange, Mr. Clerin was thinking about releasing the source code to the public, after removing all the cryptographic parts that might allow someone to decompile GPF REXX built programs. Afterwards, he decided to just lend me a personal license to replace my original lost one and a generic OS/2 license, so that there was no need for him to get up and running an OS/2 environment which he didn't have anymore.

This is what I was able to get, and I don't think he really wants to go deeper that way. But if someone is willing to ask him, maybe we could write him a petition with an NDA to continue GPF REXX development and maybe change the REXX core used, removing the registration code, or something similar. I'm thinking a mixed style license could do the job (of course no GPL, and this means that no open source software would be attached to the software or we'd have to disclose all the source code).

Mentore

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Hello Mentore.

Thanks for that. So, it means that "GpfRexx" is now "AS IS" Freeware, with no support from it's author (logically). That's good.

I have that the last version is this one:
- https://hobbesarchive.com/Home/Download?path=/Hobbes/pub/os2/dev/proglang/rexx/GpfRexx_1-2c.zip

Let me know any correction.

Thanks

Hi Martin,
AFAIK the release on Hobbes is the latest one. I have a mess in my personal software archive, which is scattered in three PCs and heavily unorganized, so I can't really confirm it's complete - still I can't find real differences in the archives I possess, so I guess that's complete.

I encourage you all to try this interesting piece of software.

Mentore

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